Matt Frei is Europe Editor and Presenter at Channel 4 News.
This year he has led the Channel 4 News coverage of events in Ukraine from the crash site of Malaysia flight MH17, to the tensions in Crimea and reported live from Independence Square on Kiev’s bloodiest day. He has also secured major interviews with Bill Clinton, George W Bush and Aung San Suu Kyi.
Prior to his appointment as Europe Editor for Channel 4 News, Frei was the Washington Correspondent for two years and has reported on the Americas on everything from business and culture to US foreign policy and its view of the world.
He is also part of the presenting team across Channel 4's news and current affairs portfolio, including the award-winning Dispatches programme.
Matt previously anchored the BBC World News America bulletin and was also Washington Correspondent. He presented a weekly radio show called Americana, and in two decades at the corporation reported from Bonn, Rome, Bosnia, Kosovo, North Africa, Hong Kong and Singapore.
He is the author of two books: Italy: The Unfinished Revolution published in 1996 by Random House and Mandarin books and Only In America published in 2008 by 4th Estate.
Almost two years since Russia launched its full scale war in Ukraine – we speak to a man who witnessed and recorded some of the worst brutality of the war. The AP journalist Mstyslav Chernov, together with two colleagues, arrived in Mariupol just an hour before the invasion. He began filming and didn’t stop for…
Earlier we spoke to Democratic pollster and political strategist, Simon Rosenberg.
We spoke to veteran pollster and political strategist Frank Luntz.
We’re joined by former Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson – who tried for the Republican nomination himself but has now thrown his support behind Nikki Haley.
We’re joined from Jerusalem by former Israeli hostage negotiator and peace activist Gershon Baskin.
President Biden’s administration is also battling Republicans who’ve been blocking billions of dollars in US military support for Ukraine.
We spoke to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy inside his heavily fortified Government offices – we asked him first, if his decision to stay in Ukraine after the invasion had convinced western leaders that he was someone they should invest in.
A top NATO official has warned Europe to be prepared for all out conflict with Russia within the next 20 years. But the “second army of the world” which boasted of taking Kyiv in 3 days is said to have suffered more than 300,000 casualties since the full scale invasion of Ukraine.
We spoke to Foreign Minister Andrew Mitchell, and began by asking him, in this ‘crucial year’, as President Zelenskyy described it, has Ukraine got Britain on its side?
We spoke to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy inside his heavily fortified Government offices – we asked him first, if his decision to stay in Ukraine after the invasion had convinced western leaders that he was someone they should invest in.
It’s been another difficult week for Ukraine – its cities are still being shelled, its president Zelensky is pleading again for more money and investment from the West, whilst the German Bundestag has turned down its request for Taurus long-range missiles.
Fujitsu’s European boss told MPs that his company has a “moral obligation” to contribute to compensation for subpostmasters.
We’re joined by political strategist Shannon Felton Spencer from Harvard’s Belfer Center, and conservative political commentator Bill Kristol from Northern Virginia.
We spoke to Hussain Al Bukhaiti, a pro-Houthi commentator based in the Yemeni capital Sa’ana, and began by asking whether the strikes would have any impact on the Houthis.
The board of Yorkshire County Cricket Club has agreed to a takeover bid by Colin Graves, who’s thought to be planning to turn it into a private company.